Bug 148758
| Summary: | Files in /etc/logrotate.d/ does not read global configuration due to misleading comment in /etc/logrotate.conf | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Oliver Schulze L. <oliver> |
| Component: | logrotate | Assignee: | Peter Vrabec <pvrabec> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 2 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2005-02-16 10:12:45 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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I think "# system-specific logs may be also be configured here." means this is a place for custom configurations of custom specified logs. The problem I found, is that this comment: "# system-specific logs may be also be configured here." mislead users to think that there is a place to put global options. I think it would be nice if there could be a comment that says: "# Global options may be configured here" There order of the statements in logrotate.conf changed when the line: "include /etc/logrotate.d/" was intruduced. Before that, users of RedHat 6.x to 9 have been putting global options after: "# system-specific logs may be also be configured here." So, if the place for global options has changed, there could be at least a comment for documenting that. Thanks |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: In logrotate.conf there is a comment that reads: "# system-specific logs may be also be configured here." So you need to put there your global-custom configurations. But, the problem is that before that comment line, all files in /etc/logrotate.d/* are executed without that "global-custom" configuration that you configured. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. put: "mail root@localhost" after the comment "# system-specific logs may be also be configured here." 2. run logrotate in debug mode: logorate /-d etc/logrotate.conf 3. check that old logs are not mailed to root 4. now put "mail root@localhost" before the line: "# RPM packages drop log rotation information into this directory" 5. run again "logorate /-d etc/logrotate.conf" and check that old logs are mailed to root Actual Results: Files in /etc/logrotate.d/* does not use global configurations from /etc/logrotate.conf Expected Results: Files in /etc/logrotate.conf should use global configurations from /etc/logrotate.conf Additional info: Asolution should be something like this: /etc/logrotate.conf: ... # system-specific logs may be also be configured here. # RPM packages drop log rotation information into this directory include /etc/logrotate.d EOF